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Building Your First Web Site
Having your own domain name and your own web site can do a lot for your business. It gives you a definite web presence and makes your business more credible. Ok, you know all that, but how do you go about the process of building one? Where do you...
GIVE YOUR LINK A FACELIFT
Got a great website? Got a long, drawn out URL link to go with it? Then you've probably experienced the agony of telling someone that long, drawn out URL string. Imagine what that link looks like on your business card, in your signature file,...
HTML Editors
So you want to create a web site? Great idea! There are few things in this world as satisfying as creating a good web site and having other people look at it, comment on it and like it. You have many choices in the tools that you use to perform...
What makes a "Real" CMS(Content Management System) "Really Good" and which System is right for me?
As the market floods with CMS solutions offered by a hundred different companies, one may start thinking "How in the world am I going to find a CMS that will firstly gives me what I want and need now and secondly will that system be able to provide...
Why FrontPage XP?
I must admit that I use Microsoft FrontPage quite a bit. It's not that I am particularly fond of the product, it's just that FrontPage has a very simple, easy-to-use WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor. This is especially true of it's...
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How Search Engines Work
Before anyone can start optimizing a web site, you must understand how search engines work.
Search engine optimization is the hardest thing to do for a webmaster because there are so many rules to it and you have to stay up to date with all the new search engine optimization techniques.
Search engines send out what is know as a robot or some people call them spiders to index your web page. They find web pages by links, When a robot finds a link on a web page it will follow it to that page (you can join www.linkexchangeit.com to trade links with other members). Each search engine has it's own robot and each robot acts different, then other robots. Some robots will index all of your web site in day and others will take weeks before they get all of your web pages. A spider is a computer software that moves from web page to web page by links gathering
information.
After a robot has indexed your web page it is sent to a database which holds large amount of other web sites. After in the database your web page will be part of the search engine results. The way it indexes your web page and where it places it on its search engine results depends on a number of factors that are on your site.
Search engines will rank your web page based on the information robots receive from indexing. The better you have SEO your site, the higher the ranking.
About the author:
Matt Colyer is the owner of the Marhen.com Network and is a part-time search engine optimizer. He also is a php, CGI and ASP developer.
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